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Button: Seventh the best we could do

McLaren driver Jenson Button has admitted that his seventh place finish in the Singapore Grand Prix was the best the team could have hoped for, asserting that a different strategy would not have produced a better outcome. Button was one of a number of drivers who opted to pit under the safety car on lap 25, and rose to third when the leaders came in for their scheduled stops. A battle with Kimi Raikkonen late-on did nothing to help his heavily-worn rubber, and after courting a podium finish the closing stages saw the Brit tumble down the order. Despite this, the 2009 World Champion insisted that the initial risk was the right decision. "We thought we might have a chance of a podium,...
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